haha I thoroughly enjoyed that book as well. My niece went through a quotation-mark-in-the-air period. She once used it for her aunt's name. It was hilarious, like she didn't believe it was really her.

Oh! Thank you, thank you for the Victor Borge reference!!! He's such a legend, and yeah, he has particularly useful ideas for those ordering cakes.

When I was a teenager, my piano teacher asked me if I was going to see Victor Borge's show. I said: "Victor Borge, who?" Alas, I didn't go, and it was one of his last performances before his death. One of the greatest regrets of my life. :/

Oh my, it appears that Hello Kitty has a thyroid problem!Love the (all girls) cake, can't imagine what would prompt them to write that, couldn't they have just said "Ladies"?My favorite thing about Rick's cake is not only the anticipation but the sudden change of capitalization! (Note the D in birthday)Oh and Cindy's cake, well that's just a prize, not only multiple periods but a whole mishmash of mixed capitalization! This cake is NOT case sensitive! :)Both those punctuation marks on the last two cakes appear to be sea-sick exclamation points. Oh and let's also not forget how the "M" in "make" appears to have an extra leg! Guess that makes their "differance" MMMMMMM good!

I love to hate unnecessary "quotation marks" and apostrophe's. I once passed a bar with a sign that said: NO ONE UNDER "21" ADMITTED. (*wink, wink*) Really, the only thing on that first cake that should be in quotes is "Hello Kitty." Thanks for making my day, as usual.

Cake #2: I was thinking about the How I Met Your Mother episode about Woo girls. What's a Woo Girl? A Woo Girl, is a type of young woman, who like the Cuckoo bird or the Whip-Poor-Will, gets the name from the signature sound she makes. "Wooooo!" A woo can be elicited from a certain song coming on the jukebox ("Sweet Home Alabama" plays); to half-priced shots; from a ride on a mechanical bull; to, well, pretty much anything.

Cake #3: What’s up with the small D in birthday? Also makes you wonder if there was some sort of inside joke with that cake...

Cake #4: HaPPy 50TH. Birth Day CiNDY. O.M.G. Some in cursive; some not. Some in lowercase and caps. Happy 50th what? Anniversary? Customer to get a cake from this bakery? Poor, poor Birth Day Cindy.

Cake #5: It could be WOW+. The wreckerator thought a regular WOW wasn’t special enough for LBah. I dunno, looks like it might be a snarfblat to me ;-)

Everyone else has said it, but props for posting Victor Borge. We own a tape of one of his performances (probably the same one PBS re-airs roughly once a year during pledge week). "That is my reward. The rest goes to the government."

CAPTCHA word of the day: "blersac" - no definition, but once when we were playing Perquacky (it's like Scrabble with dice) late at night, and we were starting to get high from the sleep deprivation, we started making up words and one of them was "quirplimbersak".

I am so impressed that some one knows enough call girls turning 30 at the same time that their names apparently won't all fit on the cake. On the other hand it could be a tribute to thirty year old call girls around the world.

Thank you for referencing two of my favorite punctuation-related things: Eats, Shoots and Leaves & Victor Borge's brilliance. (And this, kids, is how we correctly use a hyphen, commas, parentheses and a colon. Class dismissed.) ;)

I think extraneous quotation marks have a snarky quality, which must explain their current popularity. Or perhaps the intent is to make the reader think the cake is talking. I know I was fooled.

#1 An alias had to be used because "Emily" wasn't supposed to know about the secret genetic engineering program involving Hello Kitty and a squirrel.

#3 That could be a flirty ellipsis, or it could be a 'watch your back' ellipsis. Maybe both. Ulp.

#4 CiNDY had only been out with Mr. Movie Phone a few times; she never imagined that he would call in a cake order on her behalf.

#5 "The customer wants two exclamation points after 'Wow'? Check. Whoops, forgot to plan ahead again -- well, I can still squeeze in the second one."

#6 sets a new standard for passive-aggressive inscriptions. The wavelmation is just straight enough to qualify as an exclamation point, yet curvy enough to suggest a question mark. Sneaky, especially when combined with the clever use of a newly-coined word.

Ah, the great Victor Borge. From the days when people could go to a live show and not have to make a mad dash for the ear bleach immediately afterward.

I laughed so hard at Victor, my hubby opened the bathroom door and asked if I needed help. After starting school (4th grade) this week, Mr. Borge was JUST what I needed - wellllll...Mr. Borge AND Cake Wrecks :)

That first cake should also have "Hello Kitty" since that thing looks more like a mouse with skinny legs than the cute kitty lol. Imposter! As for the 30th birthday cake for call girls.. lol that is how it looks to me. Makes me wonder who picked this cake up from the bakery.

You are amazing. I owe my mental health to your amazing ability to make me literally "LOL" nearly everytime I visit this site. Really. I am thankful for the years you add to my life when I belly laugh my stress away. Whatever you get paid for this, it's not enough. Thanks!

I studied Professional Writing and Editing for a year, drilled in the basics and advancements of writing and editing for both novels and journalism. What we have here is a failure in standard english, which seems a pretty good prerequisite for writing anything. Lordy!

You absolutely made my day with the Victor Borge reference. He is my favourite comedian ever. I have one of the CDs of a live performance of his, I've listened to it so many times I just about have it memorised :)

Did you really reference Eats Shoots and Leaves? My fave! And right along with a Victor Borge post!! You've been my unofficial favorite site for quite some time. I hearby upgrade you to "favorite". You are "welcome".

Dear Jen and John---You must stop. You are getting me into some deep trouble here in the altered state of New Jersey. I am disabled, therefore, I live with my parents who are almost 70 years old. Quite frankly, they need their beauty sleep and they can't get any when I am lying here on the couch in the living room laughing my buttocks off (I wish I could laugh my butt off...well, about 5-10 pounds of it, anyway, considering I can't exercise...due to the fact that I'm a crip ass).

"Well, Well, Well, 'Emily' (if that IS your name)" made me laugh so hard my neck almost broke. In fact, if it hadn't already broken once and wasn't made out of titanium plates and screws, I'm sure it would have broken.

I need to go put ice on my neck. The ice bills are piling up. Medicare doesn't pay for ice. I think you should send me some ice since laughing so hard at your blog makes my neck hurt.

I love "your" blog because your the best in the world and no one could ever be as funny as you're.

Thank you for the laughter!!!! Seriously, I cannot begin to telling you how much joy bring you to my life.

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